Carrie: Fiftieth Anniversary Classic Edition

The most famous prom in horror fiction, republished fifty years on.

Carrie: Fiftieth Anniversary Classic Edition brings back Stephen King's debut in an anniversary edition. At school Carrie White is the constant target, and at home her mother keeps her on a tight leash with religious strictness. Around her sixteenth birthday she discovers that she can move things without touching them, in the very weeks when she is asked to the prom for the first time. What begins as a chance at an ordinary evening ends in something the whole town pays for.

A classic from 1974 that still reads as an indictment of bullying, wrapped up as horror. King tells the story partly through newspaper articles, testimonies and reports, so you feel the ending coming without the tension ever dropping. This English hardcover was published to mark the book's fiftieth anniversary and opens with a new foreword by Margaret Atwood.